The 30-year-old from Slovenia is one of the more volatile figures in the sport. She destroyed everyone in the 2012-13 World Cup season, earning twice as many points as anyone else in the overall standings.

She has also been a source of controversy throughout the years.

In 2012 the Swiss team filed an official protest against her over the full-body underwear that she wore under her suit at a World Cup race in Austria. They claimed that the aerodynamic underwear gave her an unfair competitive advantage. She responded by writing, “NOT YOUR BUSINESS” on her sports bra and flashing it after her run at the next race:

Post by Zlatarna Celje.
Her personal life is hot topic as well. She's currently dating the head of her support team, 46-year-old Italian Andrea Massi. In the middle of a sluggish 2013-14 season on the World Cup circuit, she and Massi fired her coach and hired a new one.
She has now regained her form, just in time for the biggest event of the year:
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